Birational Geometry and Algebraic Cycles -- GLEN* workshop in Liverpool 25 - 26 June 2015

Walker Lecture Theatre, 1st Floor, Harrison Hughes Building. For directions see the map

The meeting is sponsored by the London Mathematical Society and the Department of Mathematical Sciences in Liverpool

25 June 2015

12:00 - 1:00 Carmelo Di-Natale (Cambridge) Grassmannians in Derived Algebraic Geometry

1:15 - 2:15 Hamid Ahmadinezhad (Bristol) Birational Geometry of 3-folds: 1-cycles vs divisors

2:15 - 2:45 Tea, coffee, refreshments

2:45 - 3:45 Alena Pirutka (Paris) Rationality and unirationality - motivation, classical results and the example of Artin and Mumford

4:00 - 5:00 Alena Pirutka (Paris) Chow and cohomological diagonal decomposition, universal Chow group and applications to quartic threefolds

6:00 Conference Dinner

26 June 2015

12:00 - 1:00 Alena Pirutka (Paris) Around universal cycles and diagonal decomposition

1:15 - 2:15 Alena Pirutka (Paris) Other obstructions : non stable rationality of many hypersurfaces

2:15 - 2:45 Tea, coffee, refreshments

2:45 - 3:45 Joe Palacios (Liverpool) Geometric symmetric powers in the stable motivic category

4:00 - 5:00 Alice Rizzardo (Edinburgh) An example of a non-Fourier-Mukai functor between derived categories of coherent sheaves

The schedule with the abstracts and the poster

Conference photo

*GLEN = Glasgow - Liverpool - Edinburgh - Manchester - Sheffield network in Algebraic Geometry